I always find this interesting… Spotify is phenomenal for me - about every third Monday Discovery playlist has two or three hits, which feels like a pretty solid ratio, at this point. YouTube has never suggested a single thing I cared for.
I wonder if it’s a curation thing? I’ve been with Spotify since the first day it was available, and rarely use YouTube. I haven’t had a good music ratio as good since newsgroups and (real) forums a decade ago, which were a different form of curation.
I’m not clear what you think AI changes in healthcare, or which middlemen you mean? Is it the thousands of start-ups pretending you can use AI for better care? Or are you suggesting the middle men are the doctors?
Why do you think? Enragement = engagement. You could generously assume that it's users optimizing for posts that get them likes/karma/whatever, or ungenerously assume that the platform itself is gaming engagement via AI or bots, but the effect is the same and it's pervasive. The only out is finding tiny communities that are still communities, and praying they don't grow.
Everyone saw the Facebook model and adopted it. It's why Reddit has the valuation it does (and why it's still insane to me people intentionally use it as a recommendation or information tool).
I actually think it's because reddit is supported by a vast group of unpaid labor (moderators) and conspiratorially I believe they (actually) get paid by NGOs and governments to push narratives and suppress others. Although denied (poorly) it is very likely ghislaine maxwell was one of the most powerful moderators of reddit, modding hundreds of subreddits including r/worldnews, up until the day she was arrested
Many people unfortunately think that depression is like somatic diseases such as influenza, where we deduce the presence of a pathogen, a root cause, based on presented symptoms. But for depression (and many other mental health issues) we don't currently know any root cause(s) – all we can do is give names to sets of often-comorbid symptoms.
Wait, I thought those things solved depression? Why are you hedging now? Did your initial analysis suck, and you're just now realizing it? Are you figuring out that maybe this is slightly more complex than "just be happy" and that maybe you're not the only person on the planet who's ever thought about this?
Why do you think I have the responsibility to "add substance" to your non-substantive load of shit?
You may not have said the literal words "be happy", but that is precisely what your "medical advice" amounted to. Perhaps it's time to stop having big, strident opinions about things you know you know absolutely nothing about?
What absurdly thoughtless, shallow nonsense. What, specifically, is your background in depression research, that leads you to believe you've completed solved it for everyone? I'll wait. I'm sure it's fucking extensive.
> I'm not familiar with the healthcare sector. Is this where the job growth is?
Real world, less so; HN-focused areas, absolutely. Nearly every mediocre, tech-focused healthcare start up is just a money siphon, no matter how many times their founders talk about “disruption”.
In actual healthcare, there are massive nursing shortages, and lots of need for people doing actual, hard, brick-and-mortar work.
If Facebook didn’t exist, they would’ve found the photos on MySpace. Come on.
All Facebook likely did here that was any different than any other social media platform would have done, was gather Sandberg, Zuck and a cadre of snotty, sniveling engineers in a conference room and debate whether this was good engagement for the platform.
Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda, hoping no one will look any closer - clearly given what you've linked, here and what you're pretending it's responsive to.
Why, specifically, should they "be considered a small sampling"? Because that betters your apologia? Because it makes you feel good?
You can find literally thousands of clips of busification [1] online. [2] And obviously those clips themselves are themselves hardly comprehensive. In part because not every incident is filmed, and in part because Zelensky made it illegal to share and record those videos within Ukraine, so those are people risking their own wellbeing to share what's happening. That site I linked to is even banned in Ukraine.
And as the war looks increasingly decided these sort of incidents will only increase, because people don't want to die, and they especially don't want to die in vain.
> Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda
Why, specifically, it is "obvious bullshit and propaganda"? Because that betters your apologia? Because it makes you feel good?
I know it is pointless to say anything to brainwashed people, particularly those who think everyone around is brainwashed except them. Very few incidents came to light just because people are scared and afraid. zelenski secret police can make people disappear easily without any sort of trial. Just blame someone is a russian spy. Surely western mass media machine largely don't talk about it.
I wonder if it’s a curation thing? I’ve been with Spotify since the first day it was available, and rarely use YouTube. I haven’t had a good music ratio as good since newsgroups and (real) forums a decade ago, which were a different form of curation.
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